COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION100% Bourbon Barrel Aged Strong Ale. This is the oak aging beer which makes up the oak aged portion found in our Old Viscosity. This is aged in Heaven Hill Bourbon Barrels for 6 months.

A damn fine beer, I would drink it until my liver gave way. Nothing offensive at all, just beer bliss. Would get again fo sho. Deep and boozy, stone fruits, chocolate, burnt sugar, licorice, really an amazing beer.

Pours pitch black with a half finger tan head with excellent lacing. Aroma is of bourbon, woody notes, dark fruits, molasses, coffee, dark coco, vanilla, and a little booze. Taste is about the same as the aroma with the addition of some butterscotch, and mild hop bitterness. Has a medium-full body with a creamy, warming, slightly boozy, medium-long finish. Overall, a excellent strong ale that borders on imperial stout territory.

(375ml bottle @ VilleValla Pub, Linköping, Feb 6 2015) Pours basically black with a small tan head fading quickly to a ring. Aroma has lots of bourbon spirit notes, some vanilla/wood too, some pretty intense fudge/toffee malts, almost creamy, fruity prune-type notes, a bit of nutty toasted malt too. Palate loaded with malt, toffee/fudge/raw sugar/milk chocolate/toast, and also lots of bourbon flavour. Vanilla oak and prunes as well, fleshing it out and giving just a little fruit acidity. Quite sweet overall but with some spicy whiskey alcohol heat towards the finish drying it out, and subtle roast too for bitterness. Full bodied, creamy and oily, with soft but active carbonation. Big big beer. Warming and maybe a touch too sweet to be really drinkable. Total sipper. Hides its alcohol well. It’s definitely a good one, but really calls for a cold night and a fire.

Pours an average light brown frothy head that slowly diminishes. Body is black some sparkles are viible at the surface of the glass.
Aroma contains moderate malts (dark bread, hay, caramel milk chocolate, roasted and toasted malts, nuts and strong coffee), light hops (pine, grass, orange zest), light yeasts (barnyard, leather) and grape, raisin, bourbon, pine apple, cask wood, peach and other sweet fruits,spices, banana, vanilla and apple.
flavor is light acidic, then light acidic and sweet,followed by sweet (and bourbon), sweet and light bitter, sweet and bitter and finishing in espresso bitter and bourbon.
Body is full with syrupy texture and soft carbonation.
subtle, balanced and complex with bourbon coming through from time to time. The way I like it.

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